Acharya Prashant addresses a questioner's dilemma about his elderly parents. The questioner wants to keep his parents with him, but they are happier living separately. When he keeps them with him, things go wrong, and when he leaves them alone, he feels guilty. Acharya Prashant explains that the very reason the questioner wants to keep his parents with him is not right, which is why the act of keeping them together is not bearing fruit. He states that, for the most part, people do not want to keep their parents with them out of love, but rather due to a sense of propriety and morality. In love, whatever one does is good and cannot be wrong. However, when one acts out of a sense of duty, saying it is good for parents to be together, it is for the fulfillment of that duty. The speaker elaborates that this sense of duty is often driven by cultural conditioning, such as being from the land of Shravan Kumar, where parents are given the status of God, and the fear of what people will say if a son does not care for his parents. He calls this reasoning shallow. If you bring someone close for such a reason, they will not benefit from your proximity. This is why things go wrong when they are brought close. The speaker points to a problem at multiple levels, rooted in a lack of self-knowledge. We do not know ourselves, the journey of nature, what it means to be a parent, or what procreation is. If we do not know ourselves, how can we know the two beings we call our parents? The situation becomes a big mess and a great confusion. We know nothing, but we are handed a set of morals. Morality dictates that Ram left his kingdom for Dashrath, and Meghnad gave his life for Ravan, so you should also do something for your father. Acharya Prashant explains that love and understanding go hand in hand. In fact, the attraction of ignorance towards knowledge is love; the attraction of foolishness towards understanding is love. If there is no understanding in your life, how can you love your parents? If your life is filled with deep ignorance, which is violence, you will be filled with animosity towards yourself and all of existence. How then can you love your parents? The speaker clarifies that he is not saying one should not help with physical needs like medicine or treatment. However, this is a very small thing. The elderly parents, who have lived their entire lives as bodies, are now being troubled by that same body in old age. And you, standing as the epitome of morality, are trying to take care of their bodies. What they truly need is something you can only give when you first know what you truly need. What you truly need is what your parents also truly need. The reason they are happier living away from you, despite the physical benefits, is that the harm of being with you is greater. The harm is the sorrow and grief they feel from your behavior and seeing the kind of person you are. The physical distance is not the main issue; the real distance is the pain of life. First, you should reach the place where you ought to be, and then you can help them reach there too.